Summary

Walter R. Roth has over 10 years of experience founding and funding technology startups, with experience on both sides of the funding table as a venture backed CEO and as an entrepreneur in residence at a Silicon Valley venture capital fund. He has had various roles within executive management, board management, business development, sales, recruiting, product development and marketing and fund raising.

Key Milestones

• Closed $5M VC financing (02.03.00 & 08.15.00)
• Manged executive team and board for start-up during product launches, financing(s) and growth
• Re-started sales and generated first $1M for start-up
• Identified and closed large anchor tenant (United States Postal Service & State of Florida Turnpike)
• Established key strategic relationships
• Advised and helped prepare CEO’s for successful rounds of financing
• Formally trained in sales at Oracle
• Set up inside sales organizations

Corporate History

See my LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/walterroth

Sweat Investing Expertise

• Setting up Sales processes for Start-ups
• Raising venture capital
• Team building
• Product marketing
• Selling enterprise software
• Selling new media

Interests

• Traveling Abroad
• Running
• Cycling
• Reading
• Surfing
• SweatInvesting

Education

• Oracle Sales Training (based on Sandlers Sales Systems)
• University of Wisconsin at Madison (B.S. Engineering)
• Punahou High School

Sweat Portfolio

• Silver Tail Systems
• Watercooler-Inc
• United Technologies (Acquired: Enforma Diagnostisc)
• …more to come…

Preferred Contact

• Comment on one of my posts on the SweatInvestor blog (SweatInvestor Profile Post: walter.roth)
• Follow up may be a comment, new post, email and/or 30-60 minute phone call to assess if there is a match for further SweatInvesting

Other Links

http://www.facebook.com/walter.roth
http://www.linkedin.com/in/walterroth
http://www.google.com/profiles/walter.roth

Note: This is a first draft. I will be tweaking the format of the SweatInvestor profile and then will start adding more of them.  Please feel free to send in suggestions/feedback.